Re: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop and printers

[Mrs. B. <mrs...@ni...>]

In addition to this, I usually have ghostscript somewhere down the
pipeline turning postscript into whatever the printer happens to support
(unless, of course, it supports postscript). Unless you did something
rather funny, all programs under your unixish system should emit
postscript to talk to your printer...


To give a real-live example: For a while now, a client had three
Lexmark3200 printers (cheap pos), and was using windows clients and
windows terminal services. Redirection would work sporadically, but
always- if it did work- it would take 15-20 minutes before anything came
out.

The reason? The software doing the printing makes the printer output in
the format that the printer likes, and never some intermediate format
that another machine will like (that's not entirely true- Windows has
"print filters" but most print drivers either only support plain-text or
RAW)

So a document, which we'd find could be reduced to a 14k postscript
document was getting expanded into a 12MEG document for the lexmark-
then transported over a 256k link, to the internet, and over to a 160k~
link, and with three people trying to print, that means no bandwidth
left :/

So my solution has been (and likely always will be) to tell Windows all
my printers are Apple Laserwriters of some kind, and just let
ghostscript handle it.


On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 07:34, Kenneth Hess wrote:
> To expand a bit on that    ;-)
>  
> Yes, use samba on the linux computer that is using rdesktop.
> You have to connect your local printer, and setup your linux computer
> to print to it (be sure to turn off P&P in the BIOS or it may not
> work)
> Share your printer via samba (very easy to do, esp. with Webmin)
> Careful about the share name (don't use spaces or names longer than 15
> characters).
> On the TS, connect to the printer and you can now print to it via
> rdesktop.
>  
> If you have trouble, let me know...I have done this many times.
>  
> ken
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Avrahami David
>         To: 'Thomas Kalve Pedersen'
>         Cc: rde...@li...
>         Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:16 AM
>         Subject: RE: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop and printers
>         
>         
>         Use Samba
>         
>         > -----Original Message-----
>         > From: Thomas Kalve Pedersen [mailto:th...@kr...]
>         > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:24 
>         > To: rde...@li...
>         > Subject: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop and printers
>         > 
>         > 
>         > How can rdesktop print from the terminalserver to a printer 
>         > on the local 
>         > machine? (ie. a LPT-port)
>         > 
>         > If anyone has any suggestions or related URL's, please
>         notify me.
>         > 
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>         > Thomas Kalve Pedersen <th...@ne...>
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